2023-08-24 Discovery Committee Meeting

Owned by Keven Jeffery (Unlicensed)
Last updated: Sept 22, 2023
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Aug 24, 2023

Recording

Participants

  • Keven Jeffery, San Diego

  • Julie Shen, Pomona

  • Hannah Lee, Dominguez Hills

  • Kristi Chavez, Bakersfield

  • Ken Herold, Los Angeles

  • Chris Novak, San Francisco

  • David Walker, Chancellor’s Office

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Vice-Chair Selection

@Keven Jeffery (Unlicensed)

Ken Herold (CSU LA) has volunteered to be vice-chair

 

Discovery Testing Report

@Hannah Lee (Unlicensed)

Sub Committee formed to respond to questions about discovery updates. When Ex Libris releases features the group tests the feature and makes a recommendation to the CSU as to whether the feature should be adopted. Currently in the 5th round of testing.

 

Set Committee Priorities for the Year

@Keven Jeffery (Unlicensed)

This semester’s priorities

  • Invite a member of Resource Management to join us as a liaison

  • Can we create a task force with ERM, ILL, to cataloging the issues with discovery (survey? slack?)

    • Create an overview of the data issues (duplicates, etc)

    • Creating survey questions for slack or other avenues of feedback

  • Mobile Experience - describe the problems for reporting (full write-up with screen captures)

    • Julie/Chris

 

Ideas from Last Year’s Committee

  • Collaborating with other committees on issues

    • Secondary resources

    • DEI and accessibility

    • Having a discovery person on tech services committees

  • Improving Facets

    • Library of Congress Facet (Hannah)

  • Improving Authority Records & Linked Data

    • There is authority control on the alma side

    • Our preference for the OCLC record is an organizational one

  • Controlling Duplicate Records

    • FRBR & Dedupe

  • Reviewing Holdings Display (slow loading, caching)

  • Improving Mobile Experience

  • Improving Chat & Report a Problem

    • LibAnswers/LibChat Chatbot - could it direct patrons down one path or the other?

  • Google Analytics

  • AngularJS migration to Angular (no date given)

  • Discovery

    • How do we search? How can we search?

    • Can we use alternate result displays (Bento Results)?

  • GitHub

    • Can it be used for version control and sharing of templates?

  • Other Ideas?

 

How do we do our work?

@Keven Jeffery (Unlicensed)

Work offline between meetings. Share through Google Drive or the Wiki

 

 

Action Items

 

Action Items

  • Reach out to Resource Management regarding a liaison

  • Reach out to Resource Sharing and ERM regarding communication and data issues - Keven

  • Create a document to collect survey/Interview questions regarding data issues - Keven

    • Look at Trello board

  • Find out what mobile problems have already been reported - Keven